A sharp, witty and exuberant foray into the world of logic with Professor Dave Cliff.

Philosophy, math, science, technology – all of it runs on logic.
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Journeying from art to literature, sci-fi to supercomputers, Professor Dave Cliff tells the fascinating story of the quest for certainty in this gleefully nerdish BBC documentary. But could today’s super-powered computers be smarter than us? What does that tell us about our own brains and how ‘logical’ we really are?
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